OT- Researcher ethics with animals

Morning John.

I try to get the ones in my yard to clean up there act.
I use detol but they don't seem to like it very much.
I guess I would fail as a researcher.

Heading west this weekend for more red sand.

All the best.

John, I would be the first to applaud this finding, if its conclusion were not flawed.

Now I'm not saying they don't eat each other, but when I was in high school doing the limited scope of research & experimentation that was the norm for school, my science teacher emphasised that to draw a conclusion without observation of that event was false.

These guys think because a toad wiggles its toes that it will eat a smaller toad after it has come close enough.

But they did not actually observe the feast happening.

Therefore, they could have equally arrived at the conclusion that some big toads are pedophiles and want to kiss the smaller ones, or they just want to kick their ar$e because they have been naughty.

Now they will want more taxpayer to continue their cosy bit of research, but they will NEVER be able to prove their theory because it's cruel, according to the rules.

A couple of observations

- If a large toad wanted to eat a baby toad, all it would have to do is hop after it and eat it, because the small one can't hop as fast or as far. So why bother to "evolve" a wiggling toe?

- If they are cannibalistic, why are there so many of them, and why are they spreading?

And in case you haven't seen it, check Bazza here, it's brilliant

www.cane-toad.com/movie.php

Stupid peace of research. I have a frog and i can assure you it will eat anythingthat moves and it can fit into its mouth (or not even) I can imagine a canetoads any different

Their animal ethics committee must be lazy, death as an endpoint research is done particularly in regard to exotic diseases. This sould be an easy one to do for them...
Humanising animal treatment gone mad!!!

Nick

I've heard that practicing golf with a 9 iron is one way to stop cane toads waving their toes.